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John West

July 04, 2012 02:21PM

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Over the years there have been various references to trains stopping to fill the cisterns along the line, most recently in Jimmy's notes about a December 18, 1961 train stopping to fill cisterns at Ignacio and Lumberton. Can any one provide any details about how the cisterns were used. I presume it was for general water needs, but for example at Ignacio I would think it was a big enough community that there would have been some kind of community water system. Where the cisterns an alternative to individual wells, etc.

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Cisterns	John West	July 04, 2012 02:21PM
Re: Cisterns	Rich Muth	July 04, 2012 03:26PM
Re: Cisterns	bill ramaley	July 05, 2012 08:01PM
Re: Cisterns	Brian Norden	July 04, 2012 06:53PM
Re: Cisterns	Greg Scholl	July 04, 2012 06:56PM
Re: Cisterns	Ernie Barney	July 04, 2012 09:58PM
Re: Cisterns	miller	July 05, 2012 06:35AM
Re: Cisterns	John Wilke	July 05, 2012 08:10AM
Filling an engine tank from a creek	John West	July 05, 2012 08:34AM
Re: Filling an engine tank from a creek	CharlieMcCandless	July 05, 2012 11:55AM
Re: Filling an engine tank from a creek	mikerowe	July 05, 2012 01:21PM
Re: Filling an engine tank from a creek	NGJunkie	July 05, 2012 04:59PM
Re: Filling an engine tank from a creek	Dirk Ramsey	July 05, 2012 09:05PM
Re: Filling an engine tank from a creek	NGJunkie	July 06, 2012 07:00AM
Re: Filling an engine tank from a creek	Trevor Heath	July 06, 2012 06:52PM
Re: Filling an engine tank from a creek	dougvv	July 05, 2012 06:16PM
Re: Cisterns	NGJunkie	July 05, 2012 05:19PM
Re: Cisterns	Jimmy Blouch	July 06, 2012 06:26PM
The bigger story	John West	July 06, 2012 10:43PM

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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter

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